ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PLEASANCE
Plesaunce, from Old French plaisance, from plaisant pleasant, from plaisir to please.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLEASANCE»
Discover the use of
pleasance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pleasance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aftertaste:: {a Novel in Five Courses}
Aftertaste is her first novel.
Now, Leo faces solitude, the impossible striving of memory to recreate life and the hostility of a prejudiced world. Separate Rooms, Tondelli's last book, is a powerful novel of the strength of love and the trauma of death.
Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Simon Pleasance, Edmund White, 1992
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The Peculiar Pets of Miss
Pleasance
I'm Frannie Pleasance, and I run a pet shop called Needful Creatures, so I hope
you don't mind a bit of noise and fluff downstairs. Now, hurry up. I've cages to
clean, and we open at ten on the dot.” With a firm nod, she dove into the foot
traffic ...
The Merchant of Venice, Moby Dick and everyday racism in Paris.
Paul Smaïl, Simon Pleasance, Fronza Woods, 2000
The word "pleasance" enjoyed more popularity in the nineteenth century than it
seems to have done in the Middle Ages, but the country house that the humanist
Duke Humphrey of Gloucester (youngest son of King Henry IV) built at Greenwich
...
Elisabeth B. MacDougall, 1986
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Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation
For the two books come to us as Alice's dream adventures, not Charles
Dodgson's. Alice Liddell's middle name, Pleasance, provided Carroll with the
grounds for several telling poetic devices and puns, including a crucial one in the
final lines ...
Lori Hope Lefkovitz, 1997
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A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series
When striving for anything approaching realism when casting such a magnificent
ham as Pleasance, there are some things one just does not do. One does not, for
example, provide the character with a limp, nor does one afford him such a ...
This production of Playing with Grown Ups is produced with support from The
Pleasance Theatre Trust. The Pleasance is a group of performance and
development spaces in north London, and opens in edinburgh for the edinburgh
Festival ...
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Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures ...
Consider the case of Pleasance Bagge, a clergyman's daughter who married into
one of the most prominent merchant families in King's Lynn.28 According to her
diary, Pleasance participated in many cultural events in fashionable society, ...
Robert Beachy, Ralf Roth, 2007
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Landscape in Children's Literature
Langland definitively invokes the pleasance by allowing his speaker to have 'a
marvellous dream', which is magically induced. Piers the Ploughman is a strong
indicator of how the locus amoenus has been assimilated into the English literary
...
Jane Suzanne Carroll, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLEASANCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pleasance is used in the context of the following news items.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 venue guide
The Pleasance's Edinburgh venues – they also have one in north London – first opened as part of the 1985 Fringe and grown over the past 30 ... «The Stage, Jul 15»
Edinburgh Fringe 2015: An interview with Tez Ilyas
Tez found his feet on the stand-up circuit and even won the much-coveted month long Pleasance showcase The Comedy Reserve in 2013. «Nouse, Jul 15»
A European Union of comics heading to the Edinburgh Fringe
... in 2010, a place in the Chortle Student Comedy Award Final in 2013 and a place as part of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve line-up last year. «Chortle, Jul 15»
PHOTO FLASH: Look Inside Rehearsals with John Hannah in The …
The show has two London previews at Pleasance Islington on 29th and 30th July before going to Edinburgh Festival where it plays from 5-31 ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
Queer highlights of Edinburgh Fringe 2015
Addressing altogether darker parts of our collective pasts are To Kill a Machine (6th to 31st August at ZOO, The Pleasance) is play about the ... «KaleidoScot, Jul 15»
Ten Edinburgh shows about health or disability
... the fool to gain ownership of the potentially embarrassing stories she tells, so this should provide rich pickings. Pleasance Courtyard, 21:00 ... «Chortle, Jul 15»
New Diorama Theatre new season to feature three world premieres
Co-produced by resident company PIT, Pleasance Theatre and Greenwich Theatre, the play will run next year from April 19 to May 14. «The Stage, Jul 15»
Nish Kumar: 'When you talk about religion, you'll inevitably rub …
Nish Kumar: Long Word Long Word Blah Blah Blah I'm So Clever' will be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from the 8th – 30th August in the Pleasance Courtyard ... «Asian Image, Jul 15»
Almost 100 Australian acts expected at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Loranga, Masarin and Dartanjang (Pleasance) is a play for families based on Barbro Lindgren's award-winning novel while The Outsider(New ... «Australian Times, Jul 15»
Fringe preview: Alex Edelman – Everything Handed to You
Alex Edelman: Everything Handed to You, Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 8–30 Aug, 8.30pm, £9–£12 (£8–£10.50). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6 ... «The List, Jul 15»